Re: LINUX - Total Cost of ownership
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:54:57 GMT
Message-Id: <slrn7joagr.7js.cbbrowne_at_knuth.brownes.org>
On Fri, 14 May 1999 09:55:28 GMT, christoph_schram_at_my-dejanews.com
<christoph_schram_at_my-dejanews.com> posted:
>I'm writing my Ph.D. about TCO (Total Cost of
>Ownership). I'm in a kind of
>preparation phase and I'm looking for material
>about TCO and Linux. Does
>anyone know where I can find something about this
>topic?
You need to look at evaluations done by organizations like the Gartner Group, the Meta Group, and such.
>Important figures are: uptime, support, training,
>installation costs....
>
>Finaly i want to compare TCO of Windows NT with
>TCO of Linux. Important
>things are for example how are the TCO figures
>retrieved? Do they come
>from a survey or is it a scientific research?
TCO calculations are *highly* politicized. They are probably about the
*least* scientific of calculations that anyone pays attention to.
They are used as finely-tuned weapons in the war of marketing.
I expect that trying to do a scientifically-oriented analysis will have the
primary effect of making your head hurt a lot...
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Received on Fri May 14 1999 - 16:54:57 CEST